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Welcome to the Outpost Universe!

The Outpost Universe is a fan site devoted to the Sierra released games Outpost 1 and Outpost 2: Divided Destiny. Feel free to drop by our IRC channel for a few games of Outpost 2, or some realtime chat with other fans. Or perhaps drop by our forums and leave us a message or join in on one of the topics. Here we have extensive discussions of gameplay, storylines, modding, or the latest patches, releases and projects being worked on.

The Outpost Universe has managed to attract both gamers and programmers alike. If you're a gamer, than join up with the other gamers for a few quick skirmishes over IRC, or perhaps discuss strategy on the forums. If you're a programmer, or looking to get into programming, then you are sure to find a few like minded people who can share what they know, or help you along. Or if you're a gamer who is looking for precise descriptions of how Outpost 2 works internally so you can perfectly optimize your next killer strategy, well, we have people that can probably help with that too.

Currently, the Outpost Universe offers a NetFix patch to help people play Outpost 2 over the internet who are behind a home router. It's not a complete WON replacement, but it's a significant step in the right direction. We also have a Hamachi network setup for people who would prefer to play over a VPN. For level designers, we have a mission development kit and map editor if you want to try your hand at making new Outpost 2 levels, but be warned, you pretty much have to be a programmer to use these tools, and you'll need a C++ compiler. Bug fixes and enhancement patches are also provided for various issues that have cropped up over the years, such as the option button highlighting, screen resolution issues, network gameplay problems, or just wanting to build twice as many units. We also provide a patched version with the cheats disabled, so you'll never again have to worry about cheats ruining your next online game of Outpost 2. Please be advised that different versions of Outpost 2 are not compatible with each other in network games, and most people here choose to use the patched version from the download section. The list of bug fixes and enhancments included is too large to list here, but if you're curious to see what we've done with the game, then check out ChangeLog.txt included in the download package.

So, why not stop by our forums to signup and say "Hello!", and see our current projects.


News
  Account Cleanup
Posted by Hooman on Jan 16 2010, 03:41 AM GMT  |  Comments: 31

A number of 0 post accounts have been deleted today (just over 400 actually). Only accounts with no posts were deleted. Many of them were suspected bot accounts. A few may have just been forgotten about by the people that started them (or have been neglecting to write their first post). If that's the case, than I apologize for deleting your account. You are of course quite welcome to start a new one.

This account cleanup may happen again in the future, so new members are encouraged to post an introduction, or anything really, so we can see you're not a bot. If you don't post, we usually have no way of telling if a real person signed up for the account or not.


One of the reasons for the cleanup, aside from getting rid of useless junk bot accounts, is they sometimes leave messages in places people don't usually look, but search engines pick up on. We don't really want our site to be associated with whatever it is they're selling, and have linked to in their personal profile or similar. Of course one way to limit this impact is to not allow search engines to index the personal profiles. However, there are other places where their information may be displayed that can't be easily limited, or are perhaps missed. For instance, the name of the newest member is displayed at the bottom of the main page. If their name contains something they're selling, or is perhaps just unique, then having it on our site may help to promote their site in a search engine (as their name is linked to their site, which is found all over the net), and perhaps bring our site down a bit in the process (as our site becomes more associated with what they're selling and diluting our ranking for what we're really about). Hence we don't really want useless bot accounts just sitting around.



  Merry Christmas!
Posted by Hooman on Dec 25 2009, 05:26 PM GMT  |  Comments: 9

Merry Christmas everyone!

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This year my sister decorated the tree. What do you guys think?



  Web Server Downtime
Posted by Galactic on Aug 25 2009, 08:11 AM GMT  |  Comments: 15

Sorry about the website being down so long. The parent server that OPU is hosted on had a hardware failure and data had to be restored from backups. No data was lost in the event.

There might be some changes in where OPU is hosted. I will keep you updated.


  IMPORTANT NOTICE
Posted by BlackBox on Jul 28 2009, 04:30 PM GMT  |  Comments: 2

It appears that one of the main hostnames for our server has stopped functioning properly due to a security issue. We are still looking into what is causing this, however:

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
YOU MUST USE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING DOMAINS TO ACCESS THIS SITE:

outpostuniverse.net
outpost2.net
outpost2.com

This applies to ALL subdomains (for example, forum.outpost2.net to access the forum; irc.outpost2.net to access IRC).

Update your bookmarks. Directions to update your IRC client are listed below.

IF YOU FAIL TO DO THIS YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE WEBSITE, IRC, OR ANY OTHER OUTPOST UNIVERSE NETWORK SERVICE.

IF ANYONE INFORMS YOU THAT THE OLD DOMAIN NAME IS STILL WORKING, OR THAT YOU CAN ACCESS IRC THROUGH A DOMAIN NOT LISTED ABOVE -- THEY ARE GIVING YOU FALSE INFORMATION

http://forum.outpostuniverse.net/ and http://forum.outpost2.net/
ARE THE ONLY OFFICIAL SOURCES FOR DOMAIN RELOCATION INFORMATION


We will provide you with more information in the coming days.

Thank you for your cooperation.
The OPU Staff


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